According to Hortifruct, cucumbers and tomatoes will contribute some 44% of total sales.
Hortifruct includes fruit and vegetable producers Leoser, Berser, Leader International, Frank ’93 Prod, Ostrovit, Lio Agro Com and Ilser Oltenia. It was set up in 2007 and operates 170 hectares of greenhouses, 2,000 hectares of vineyard and 500 hectares of orchards.
Last year, the seven firms produced and sold about 36,000 tons of vegetables.
The association expects production will exceed 38,000 tons of vegetables in 2013, Hortifruct administrator Valeria Trica said in a statement Monday.
Hortifruct exports fruit and vegetables to Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, Trica said. About 35% of this year’s production will be exported and the remainder will be marketed in Romania, she added.